Slavery and Islam

ccording to the Global Slavery Index, there are 740,000 people living in modern slavery. Marozzi opens his book in the Kayes region of western Mali, where hereditary slavery persists, as does the right of masters to rape the wives and daughters of their slaves.

And why sex slavery in Syria is conducted by men quite convinced of their Islamic virtue.

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The historian Bernard Lewis once lamented that, thanks to contemporary sensibilities, it had become “professionally hazardous” for bright young things to probe slavery in Muslim societies.